Vega$ Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Vega$: Season 3

• Season 3 Episode 23: Judgement Pronounced

  A deranged man (Alan Feinstein) hires a double for Dan Tanna to execute his brand of justice by killing men against whom he held a grudge.

• Season 3 Episode 22: Nightmare Come True

  Dan is reluctant to work with a psychic (Cristina Ferrare) to locate a couple's daughter, kidnapped for a ransom of $2 million in diamonds.

• Season 3 Episode 21: French Twist

  A French detective (Louis Jourdan) contacts old friend Dan when the trail of an unfaithful wife leads him to Las Vegas; guest Edd Byrnes.

• Season 3 Episode 20: Dead Ringer

  Singer Wayne Newton (appearing as himself) receives an explosive parcel bearing a note in his handwriting telling him to leave the country.

• Season 3 Episode 19: Seek & Destroy

  Three Soviet agents attempt to destroy a defecting Soviet pilot's jet before the American government can study it; guest Heather Menzies.

• Season 3 Episode 18: The Killing

  Dan suspects that a robbery and shooting which left four restaurant patrons dead is a cover-up for the assassination of one of the victims.

• Season 3 Episode 17: Set Up

  A double date for Dan and Nelson ends with the lieutenant framed for two murders; guests Simon Oakland, Sybil Danning, Richard Basehart.

• Season 3 Episode 16: Out of Sight

  Dan's investigation of a mobster (Harry Guardino) abruptly ends when Tanna is temporarily blinded after being shot in the head by thugs.

• Season 3 Episode 15: Time Bomb

  Two men from Binzer's past return and demand that he pay them $50,000, sending Binzer on a panicked search for someone to lend him the money.

• Season 3 Episode 14: No Way to Treat a Victim

  Bea calls in Dan to investigate when a man's (Michael Cole) dates all seem to end with the rape, and sometimes murder, of his companions.

• Season 3 Episode 13: Heist

  Dan stages a robbery to test Roth's casino security systems, only to have one (James MacArthur) of his accomplices decide to keep the cash.

• Season 3 Episode 12: Backlash

  A mother hires Dan to find her teenage daughter, unaware the girl and her friends are working for extortionists; guest Morgan Woodward.

• Season 3 Episode 11: Murder by Mirrors

  Beatrice witnesses a murder while flying over a luxurious house, but police can later find no evidence of a crime; guest Patrick Macnee.

• Season 3 Episode 10: Sourdough Suite

  A prospector (Noah Beery) rides off with cash and vital papers after a trade of information for money ends with all the participants dead.

• Season 3 Episode 9: The Andreas Addiction

  An ex-addict (Joe Penny) takes revenge on Dan by chaining him in an abandoned casino and injecting him with heroin; guest June Lockhart.

• Season 3 Episode 8: Christmas Story

  A 9-year-old (Jill Whelan) claiming to be Dan's daughter brings a note saying her mother is ready to commit suicide.

• Season 3 Episode 7: Deadly Blessing

  A nun (Cassie Yates) claims the Desert Inn stands on land willed to her by an old man, and is determined to turn the hotel into a convent.

• Season 3 Episode 6: A Deadly Victim

  An alcoholic, former attorney (Eleanor Parker) hires Dan when an assassin (Vincent Baggetta) kills a derelict who foiled a murder attempt.

• Season 3 Episode 5: Love Affair

  Dan unknowingly falls in love with a prostitute (Priscilla Barnes) working for a pimp (Dick Sargent) involved in murder; guest Ruta Lee.

• Season 3 Episode 4: Sudden Death

  Dan shoots a burglar in his date's (Stepfanie Kramer) apartment, but later learns the man he killed carried only an air rifle.

• Season 3 Episode 3: Black Cat Killer

  After Beatrice is shot while in her apartment, Dan links the attack to a killer who has already slain three other people; guest Erin Gray.

• Season 3 Episode 2: Aloha You're Dead

  Dan stages Roth's murder with a look-alike, then sets out to hunt down the leader of the conspiracy; guest Pernell Roberts.

• Season 3 Episode 1: Aloha You're Dead

  Dan is kidnapped while jogging and taken to Hawaii, where a crime syndicate orders him to murder Roth; guest Lorne Greene.

Vega$: Season 2

• Season 2 Episode 23: Vendetta

  A cursed goblet is blamed for the drug-overdose death of Dan's friend, a restaurateur, until a second death occurs; guest Marta Du Bois.

• Season 2 Episode 22: Siege of the Desert Inn

  Beatrice is among several chorus girls taken hostage in a penthouse by three determined thieves demanding $5 million; guest Cameron Mitchell.

• Season 2 Episode 21: The Golden Gate Cop Killer

  Rhymes provide Dan and San Francisco police with the only clues to several murders of police officers; guest Tanya Roberts.

• Season 2 Episode 20: The Golden Gate Cop Killer

  Dan travels to San Francisco when an old friend, a police officer, becomes the fourth victim of murder; guest Tanya Roberts.

• Season 2 Episode 19: The Man Who Was Twice

  A female impersonator (Jim Bailey) and his manager (Darleen Carr) hire Dan to investigate death threats.

• Season 2 Episode 18: The Hunter Hunted

  A man (Robert Loggia) seeking to avenge his son's death threatens and terrorizes Lt. Nelson's family; guests Toni Tennille, Daryl Dragon.

• Season 2 Episode 17: Consortium

  A slain prostitute is found in Dan's car while a group of investors, including Dan's brother-in-law (James Darren), meet to buy a casino.

• Season 2 Episode 16: The Lido Girls

  Dan encounters a French detective (Louis Jourdan) while probing the death of the card dealer involved in three girls' huge winning streak.

• Season 2 Episode 15: Magic Sister Slayings

  Dan has 24 hours to save kidnapped Costigan's life by relinquishing evidence which would prevent a mobster from getting a gambling license.

• Season 2 Episode 14: All Kinds of Love

  Dan suspects that Beatrice's fiance (Dennis Cole) may actually be more interested in the $2 million a wealthy uncle left to Bea's daughter.

• Season 2 Episode 13: Comeback

  Dan suspects vengeful veterans when a bomb similar to ones used in Vietnam kills the wife of an old war buddy now performing in Las Vegas.

• Season 2 Episode 12: Lost Monday

  A hypnotist (Mary Ann Mobley) involves unsuspecting Binzer in a plot to murder a basketball player and a sportswriter; guest Tige Andrews.

• Season 2 Episode 11: Night of a Thousand Eyes

  Three people competing for a kidnap bounty are murdered during a private investigators' convention; guests Heather Menzies, Gary Collins.

• Season 2 Episode 10: The Classic Connection

  Dan and a government agent (Susan Howard) cooperate to bust a drug ring using classic automobiles to smuggle heroin; guest Wayne Newton.

• Season 2 Episode 9: The Day the Gambling Stopped

  Dan is hired to find the source of counterfeit chips which caused an overage of $2 million in the Roth casinos; guest Christopher Stone.

• Season 2 Episode 8: The Macho Murders

  Dan begins to suspect that a feminist author (Lynne Marta) implicated in several murders may indeed be the killer; guest Shelley Winters.

• Season 2 Episode 7: Dan Tanna is Dead

  A vengeful convict gives Dan a dose of toxic venom, leaving the detective 20 hours to locate a cure.

• Season 2 Episode 6: Shadow on a Star

  Dan is hired to find the man who brutally raped an entertainer (Lisa Hartman) and to supress the news.

• Season 2 Episode 5: Design for Death

  Saboteurs seeking to disrupt a designer's (Eve Arden) fashion show kill Dan's old flame (Barbi Benton), a model.

• Season 2 Episode 4: Runaway

  A wealthy Kentucky rancher (Pat Hingle) hires Dan to track down a pregnant, runaway teenager (Terri Nunn) whom he claims is his daughter.

• Season 2 Episode 3: Mixed Blessing

  A nun (Cassie Yates) hires Dan to find a stolen religious cross when she suspects a drug addict intends to sell the artifact in Las Vegas.

• Season 2 Episode 2: The Usurper

  Dan traces Roth's steps to learn why he turned over his business to another man (Robert Reed) and then disappeared; guest Minnesota Fats.

• Season 2 Episode 1: Redhanded

  Dan discovers a girl (Melanie Griffith) whom Twoleaf is accused of killing was involved in a scheme involving an escort service and drugs.

Vega$: Season 1

• Season 1 Episode 22: The Visitor

  Dan and Twoleaf step in to protect a Middle Eastern princess (Kim Cattrall) fleeing political strife in her country; guest Michael Ansara.

• Season 1 Episode 21: A Way to Live

  Dan suspects foul play when a mechanic who warned him of dangers in a spectacular motorcycle leap is found dead; guest Wilfrid Hyde-White.

• Season 1 Episode 20: Touch of Death

  A bride comes to Dan when her new husband suddenly disappears, but Tanna can find no one who remembers the couple; guest Stephen Elliott.

• Season 1 Episode 19: Doubtful Target

  Binzer swears revenge for his girlfriend, killed by a criminal (Leslie Nielsen) leaving the scene; guest Louise Sorel.

• Season 1 Episode 18: Everything I Touch

  Angie is in mortal danger when a mysterious, bearded figure begins killing all the women in Dan's life; guests Adam West, Fawne Harriman.

• Season 1 Episode 17: Demand and Supply

  Dan poses as a pimp to crack a child-prostitution ring victimizing daughters of single parents; guests William Smith, Cynthia Eilbacher.

• Season 1 Episode 16: Best Friends

  Dan suspects a tough, longtime foe (Abbe Lane) when an assassination attempt on Roth kills Roth's partner instead; guest John Rubenstein.

• Season 1 Episode 15: Death Mountain

  Dan suspects an Indian chief's death may be linked to a real-estate mogul's (Keye Luke) attempts to buy up Indian land; guest Ken Curtis.

• Season 1 Episode 14: Kill Dan Tanna

  A crippled Vietnam veteran (Richard Lynch) hires two mercenaries to take his revenge against Dan, whom he blames for his wartime injury.

• Season 1 Episode 13: The Eleventh Event

  A wheelchair-bound, former Olympic athlete (Clifton Davis) offers to pay ransom when his singer friend is kidnapped; guest Michael Conrad.

• Season 1 Episode 12: Ghost of the Ripper

  A police officer (Pamela Hensley) teams with Dan to nab a killer recreating the 19th century murders of prostitutes by 'Jack the Ripper.'

• Season 1 Episode 11: Serve, Volley & Kill

  A tennis star (Randolph Mantooth) is threatened with possibly fatal injury unless he loses an upcoming $100,000 match; guest Red Buttons.

• Season 1 Episode 10: Second Stanza

  Dan suspects that mishaps plaguing rehearsals for a troubled singer's comeback may not be accidents; guests Eugene Roche, Doc Severinson.

• Season 1 Episode 9: Lost Women

  Dan steps in when a white-slavery ring run by a wealthy man (Cesar Romero) kidnaps several chorus girls; guests Moses Gunn, Della Reese.

• Season 1 Episode 8: The Pageant

  An influential father (Robert Reed) hires Dan to find the masked attacker who beat and raped his daughter in a beauty-parlor parking lot.

• Season 1 Episode 7: Milliken's Stash

  Dan searches for a girl who supposedly stole a large cocaine shipment lost during a police chase; guests Pernell Roberts, Isabel Sanford.

• Season 1 Episode 6: Lady Ice

  Dan unknowingly falls for a girl (Kim Basinger) involved with two jewel thieves planning to rob a gem convention; guest Cameron Mitchell.

• Season 1 Episode 5: Yes, My Darling Daughter

  A girl (Lauren Tewes) hires Dan to find her supposedly dead father, whom she thinks she saw in the back of the church during her wedding.

• Season 1 Episode 4: Love, Laugh and Die

  The top suspects in the death of a reformed prostitute include three former loves: a folk singer, a tennis star and a construction tycoon.

• Season 1 Episode 3: Mother Mishkin

  Dan suspects a greedy land speculator (Ross Martin) when wild animals, murder attempts and thugs beset Mother Mishkin; guest Anne Francis.

• Season 1 Episode 2: The Games Girls Play

  A respected senator wants Dan to retrieve negatives of suggestive photographs he feels could jeopardize his anti-pornography legislation.

• Season 1 Episode 1: Centerfold

  Blackmailers drug a model (Cristina Ferrare) and then take pornographic photos of her in order to force her to sign a management contract.